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gamete

gamete

See also: gamète

English

Noun

gamete ‎(plural gametes)

(cytology) A reproductive cell (male (sperm) or female (egg)), having only half of a complete set of chromosomes.

Synonyms

sex cell
See also Wikisaurus:gamete

Hyponyms

Hypernyms

germ cell

Derived terms

Terms derived from gamete

gametophyte

See also

Translations

reproductive cell

Armenian: գամետ (hy) ‎(gamet), սեռական բջիջ ‎(seṙakan bǰiǰ)
Basque: gameto
Catalan: gàmeta m
Czech: gameta (cs) f
Danish: kønscelle c
Dutch: geslachtscel (nl)
Esperanto: gameto
Estonian: sugurakk
Finnish: sukusolu (fi), gameetti (fi), sukupuolisolu (fi)
French: gamète (fr) m
German: Geschlechtszellen, Gamet (de) m
Greek: γαμέτης (el) m ‎(gamétis)
Hindi: जननकोश ‎(janankoś)
Hungarian: gaméta, ivarsejt (hu)
Icelandic: kynfruma (is) f

Ido: gameto (io)
Italian: gamete (it) m
Japanese: 配偶子 ‎(はいぐうし, haigūshi)
Norwegian:

Bokmål: kjønnscelle

Nynorsk: kjønnscelle
Portuguese: gameta (pt) f
Russian: гаме́та (ru) f ‎(gaméta)
Spanish: gameto (es) m
Swedish: gamet (sv) c, könscell (sv) c
Tamil: பாலணு ‎(pālaṇu)
Turkish: gamet (tr), dölcük, eşey hücresi (tr), eşeylik gözesi
Welsh: gamet (cy) m

Italian

Noun

gamete m ‎(plural gameti)

(cytology) gamete

Derived terms

Anagrams

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